[Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

Thomas Goirand thomas at goirand.fr
Wed Aug 25 05:54:53 UTC 2010


Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 15:22 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:11 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:16:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>>>>>>> Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>>>>>> Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest
>>>>>>>> version from xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch?
>>>>>>> On the way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh, kernel update form xen/stable-2.6.32.x will bring
>>>>>> Xen PV-on-HVM drivers aswell..
>>>>> These drivers have also been backported to the regular 2.6.32 flavour
>>>>> for Squeeze so you won't need the Xen flavour to get this functionality.
>>>>>
>>>> Oh nice! Thanks.
>>>>
>>> Btw which kernel release in squeeze/testing adds these pv-on-hvm drivers? 
>> It will be in 2.6.32-21 which AIUI will be uploaded to Sid shortly.
>> Sorry, it was misleading of me to suggest it was already in Squeeze.
> 
> Sadly not.  I have had to revert the addition of pvhvm because it causes
> an instant panic under KVM (at least in a 64-bit kernel).
> 
> Ben.

Can't this then be added as a Xen only patch?

Thomas



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